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A web hosting blog by ineedwebhosting.co.uk →Tue, 27 Nov 2018 15:20:23 +0000en-UShourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.12How to setup email on your Mac using Apple Mailhttps://www.ineedwebhosting.co.uk/blog/how-to-setup-email-on-your-mac-using-apple-mail/
https://www.ineedwebhosting.co.uk/blog/how-to-setup-email-on-your-mac-using-apple-mail/#respondTue, 13 Mar 2018 12:27:59 +0000https://www.ineedwebhosting.co.uk/blog/?p=1001The following instructions show you how to setup an email account on Apple Mail to work with your I Need web Hosting mailbox.

You will need the following information…

Your mailbox username (the email address)

The mailbox password

The incoming and outgoing mail-server names.

1. Open Apple Mail

Open Mail. If you haven’t added a new account yet, you’ll be taken directly to the Add Account prompt.

If you’re adding an additional account, or this prompt doesn’t otherwise load automatically, you’ll need to select the “Add Account” from the Mail menu as below.

2. Select the account type

From the Add Account prompt, select Add Other Mail Account… and click Continue.

3. Enter your Mailbox details

Enter your email account information and click create.

Full Name: Your name as you would like it to appear.

Email Address: Your full email address.

Password: The password for your email account.

4. Connecting to the mail-server

Mail will attempt to contact the mail server.

When an autodiscover setting has been unsuccessful, the message “Unable to verify account name or password” will appear in a new settings box. This is nothing to be concerned about. Follow stage 5 next.

(The default search uses “autodiscover.example.com” – unless you have this subdomain already created and an SSL Certificate installed, this will not work. However, don’t worry! It’s normal for this to happen due to “I Need Web Hosting” servers not having autodiscover settings enabled by default.)

5. Complete the name-server details.

Fill in the fields using your email info and the domains mail-server names.

(If you do not see this box and are using a version of Apple Mail that was released prior to OSX Sierra.)

Email Address: Your full email address.

User Name: Your full email address.

Password: The password to your email account.

Account Type: We strongly recommend connecting via IMAP.

Incoming Mail Server: Either your IP address or mail.example.com.

Outgoing Mail Server: Either your IP address or mail.example.com.

(Please note that by default, Apple Mail versions 10 and higher use secure (SSL) connections for both incoming and outgoing servers. We highly recommend that you do not change this, but SSL and port settings may be modified under server settings in the preferences menu once setup is complete.)

6. Select linked apps

Lastly you’ll be asked to confirm which apps that you’d like to attach the email account to. Select any others that you’d like and click Done.

That’s it! You just configured your email address on Apple Mail. If you have any questions, please feel free contact support.

]]>https://www.ineedwebhosting.co.uk/blog/how-to-setup-email-on-your-mac-using-apple-mail/feed/0How to upload a website created using Blocshttps://www.ineedwebhosting.co.uk/blog/how-to-upload-a-website-created-using-blocs/
https://www.ineedwebhosting.co.uk/blog/how-to-upload-a-website-created-using-blocs/#respondWed, 17 Jan 2018 17:40:23 +0000http://www.ineedwebhosting.co.uk/blog/?p=960You’ve created your new responsive website using Blocs. You then need to know how to upload this Blocs website and publish Blocs files to our web servers.

With the instructions below you’ll learn how to…

Publish/Export your Blocs website project.

Upload the exported files to the web server.

Exporting your Website from Blocs

Export your Blocs project to the desktop of your Mac.

By default, it will create a folder called “My Site”.

Open the “My Site” folder. This folder contains all the files/folders your website needs. These files and folders need to be uploaded to the public_html folder on your web hosting package. The aim is to make the files and folder inside your “My site” folder match exactly the contents of the “public_html folder in your hosting.

The next stage will show you how to upload these files and folders to the server.

The PHP Switcher in the eXtend Control Panel now allows you to switch to the following versions of PHP:

5.2

5.3

5.4

5.5

5.6

7

]]>https://www.ineedwebhosting.co.uk/blog/php-switcher-now-supports-all-current-versions-of-php/feed/0Softpress the makers of Freeway returns!https://www.ineedwebhosting.co.uk/blog/softpress-the-makers-of-freeway-returns/
https://www.ineedwebhosting.co.uk/blog/softpress-the-makers-of-freeway-returns/#respondThu, 23 Feb 2017 10:19:47 +0000http://www.ineedwebhosting.co.uk/blog/?p=946Good news! Softpress the makers of Freeway Pro have, as they put it “returned from the netherworld”. Their site is back and offering updates to Freeway Pro 7.014. It’s probably best to visit the forum Freewaytalk for get the latest news and comments on this.
]]>https://www.ineedwebhosting.co.uk/blog/softpress-the-makers-of-freeway-returns/feed/0The end of Softpress’s Freeway and a new beginninghttps://www.ineedwebhosting.co.uk/blog/the-end-of-softpresss-freeway-and-a-new-beginning/
https://www.ineedwebhosting.co.uk/blog/the-end-of-softpresss-freeway-and-a-new-beginning/#respondFri, 04 Nov 2016 17:29:45 +0000http://www.ineedwebhosting.co.uk/blog/?p=937Some of you may have already heard that Softpress Systems Ltd the makers of Freeway (the Mac desktop web authoring tool) has closed it’s doors. This leaves the last version of Freeway Pro 7.13. Those already on 7 can still download an upgrade from their site.

For those you who jumped on the last upgrade to Freeway 7 it leaves a legacy version very we’ll capable of producing a sophisticated and responsive website. This should serve Freeway Pro 7 users needs into the… well, near future.

But what of the future?

At some point your version of Freeway may stop working. Perhaps from an Apple system update that may just botch the app and stop vital functions. So, it’s time for existing Freeway users to have a future plan.

All is not lost – Try code

If Freeway stops working altogether the code Freeway previously published up to the server is safe and functional and editable via a text editor.

OK it’s understandable that being a coder is not a job you want to take on given that you originally used Freeway for it’s WYSIWYG interface. But there are tools that can view your code and edit in a visual environment one of them is Pinegrow https://pinegrow.com.

Or move to new tools

If code editing is not your thing there are other apps to design a site visually without having to be exposed to code. But this will mean creating your website from scratch. It may be time for a website refresh anyway.

Some very good Mac visual web site design apps are;

Blocs

Blocs builds a responsive mobile friendly website with a very slick interface. http://blocsapp.com

Sparkle visual web design

Mobirise Website Builder

A different direction.

There is a another option. It’s not having an app on your computer at all. The design app lives on the web server and you design your site in your browser. It’s called WordPress. A name you may have heard before, WordPress is probably the most popular web site design tool in the whole world. WordPress can be installed on your web hosting. Then by the use of adding themes (many free) can style the site in hundreds of ways all in your web browser.